flashpacker

a geeky backpacker - youngsters which always carry around a backpack stuffed with 'indispensable' gadgetry: laptop, pda, gps etc

also referring to a backpacker with better budget - independent travelers with money to spend.

Your flashpacker friend couldn't possibly enjoy a coffee away from Google. Ok, let's go to Starbucks, they have WiFi there

by U8IK November 10, 2007

EEE

Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish.
variant: "embrace, extend, and exterminate"

"Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), ... is a phrase that the U.S. DoJ found was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standard , extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences in order to strongly disadvantage its competitors.

by U8IK March 16, 2020

scanner

people with a very big variety of interests (jacks of all trades, polymaths etc) often to the point that they don't know what to choose as they don't want to give up their other interests

Jim has tried this and that but still hasn't decided on a clear path, he is, I guess, what you call a scanner. Sadly, he's in his early thirties.

by U8IK April 11, 2011

eleutheromania

A desperate craving for freedom, a compulsive need for traveling around.

Don't let yourself be fooled by Jeff. He seems such a nice guy but he's eleutheromania keeps knocking. He'll be out the door in less than a month.

by U8IK June 27, 2007

GTD

Acronym for Getting Things Done. Usually refers to a task management application - a somehow fancier to do list you can mantain on your computer.

Can you recommend me a GTD app for Mac?

by U8IK January 13, 2008

visa run

Stepping back then back again in a country over a short period of time (ie same day) - in order to reset/extend the period of days a non-resident can stay in a country.

Most foreign visitors to Thailand are granted a 30 day visa on arrival in Thailand. Staying longer requires a new visa, and the fastest & most economical means of getting it is a visa run: exit Thailand and return.

by U8IK May 13, 2008

bonanza

a state of well-being, state of plenty - derived after a famous country/western serial in which everything ended joyfully, and the mood was all-happy

oh, you should have come, it was a beach bunny bonanza, bikinis every where you looked. oh boy!

by U8IK January 15, 2007